Overview
- Johnson wrote on X, “lol zero spooked, sorry,” responding to coverage of Kathleen Kennedy’s remarks.
- In an exit interview, Kennedy said she believes Johnson was deterred by online negativity, while also calling him a brilliant filmmaker who made one of the best Star Wars movies.
- After The Last Jedi in 2017, Johnson was slated to develop a new Star Wars trilogy, but the project did not get off the ground as he turned to launching Knives Out.
- Johnson previously told Rolling Stone the trilogy “never made it deep into development,” describing it as “all very conceptual” and saying, “Nothing really happened with it.”
- In December, Johnson said he expected pushback to The Last Jedi and was not afraid of challenging audience expectations.